Weekly Round Up--Ending January 29th

Where to start? Diet? Exercise?  Passing thoughts?

Honestly, there is too much in my mind of late but I have not taken the time to spill it. This week I plan to write a couple times to hopefully get some of it out.

Over the years I have typically used my voice to communicate things face to face but its amazing how much opportunity for self realization, self development, and most importantly a journal (record) of thoughts, accomplishments and failures can do for attaining or pursuing a goal. I have never, until recently found this valuable, but I can confirm so far for me its a good way to get my propaganda out without interruption where as when I speak people tend distract or confuse my line of thought LOL. Silence the loud mouth (can't blame them we all have something to say)!!

Let's get the party started with...

The Good

• orthotics ordered
• 3 runs completed
• 4 lbs lost
• 2 gym workouts completed/2 upper body/2 elliptical
• 1 CrossFit workout completed
• decided to sign up for CrossFit 2-3 days per week
• tracked all calories
• stayed well under 2000 cal 5/7 days
• drank my water 5/7 days

The Bad

• NONE!

I have lots I want to talk about what I think made me successful this week, but I will save that for later this week!! The big one I want to talk about is stress.

In my first blog post I spoke about information (fitness/health/diet) and the mass amounts that are out there and sometimes reading it and applying it to your (my) life makes little sense. But as I said I think it is so important to still read it and not discount it until it is completely ruled out.

Guess what, I think last week I finished one of the those connect the dot puzzles and or color by numbers and may have solved in my mind a key way to new success. It now makes so much sense what I have been doing wrong!!

Check back for some STRESS!!!!

Weekly Round Up--Ending January 22nd

Well what a week!! Some things accomplished and a feeling that a plan is beginning to develop towards real progress.

Traction Points this Week

• got my 7 hours of exercise in
• tracked all food and calories
• lost 1lbs
• drank 6-8 glasses of water almost everyday
• went to a Cross Fit class (will talk more about this) Kettle Bells
• set an orthotic appointment
• 5 strengthening workouts completed
• 6 elliptical workout's completed
• completed 2 sets of ten push ups
• completed 3 sets of ten sit ups (old school)

Traction Not Required or Wanted

• 2000 calorie limit exceeded in 6 of the 7 days by as much as 380 calories and as little as 70 calories
• sodium intake is too high
• not running my 25 kms (rationalized but it was a weekly goal)
• not taking my lunch to work (new realization)

As some fellow blogger friends have mentioned, resting is not giving up. This is true, but it is disheartening (feels a bit like a let down). Naturally I know I will never be a good runner but I was happy with my progess and was receiving a satisfaction from participation in it (I will continue). Then came a  CrossFit class which a friend from 20 years ago introduced me too.

When I was trying to model my  2012 goals it was developed in the hope of achieving fitness, and I tried to establish what that is. Finding a definition of fitness is difficult, and really it is subjective as standards really vary. For example years ago I was not fit by many standards but I can assure you I could physically out work most people and did on many occasions. For example, farmers are known for their strength and work ethic in my opinion, but does that mean they can run a sub six minute mile and do 40 push-ups in 60 seconds? Maybe, maybe not, but many are fit and many are not. Because of this I thought fitness standards that are used by the military, police, emergency personnel, and school boards of my day are the best benchmarks for me. And guess what, CrossFit caters to people who are trying to gain entrance into these programs. Here is their website for a better explanation of what it is. I did the Kettle Bell class. 

Alchemy CrossFit

Time will only tell, but I have a feeling this can help my foot and in turn increase my fitness and then my ability to be a better runner.

Time will tell!

Tell me about your experience with CrossFit?